Betta SE Solar Powered Automatic Robotic Pool Surface Skimmer Cleaner with 24/7 Continuous Cleaning Battery Power and Re-Engineered Twin Salt Chlorine Tolerant Motors (Blue)

This little guy is a workhorse. While it doesn't exactly get the corners, it gets about 95% of the debris in the pool. I have to do very minimum clean up behind it. Easy to set up. Easy to operate and gets to work straight out of the box. No cords, battery life is great and the body of it is rugged and can withstand bumps. My pool gets plenty of sun so this thing can probably run for a long time.

This might be the best pool product I've purchased. Only had it a month so can't speak to longevity yet but in terms of ease of use and time saving and performance it's been fantastic. If you own a pool especially one the requires lots of maintenance to remove stuff falling into the pool (ie have lots of trees around) you will save yourself a great deal of time w/ this. The solar works great I just let it run on top of my pool day/night, take it out when we swim and that's it. Empty it every morning....skimmers always clean never have to scoop stuff out of the pool (pine needles, leaves, bugs). So easy to use, wish I had this the last several years.

This does a great job at picking up debris before it sinks to the bottom. It even runs overnight on the reserve battery. We run our filter less often, saving electricity. I am very happy with this purchase.

This cleaner is amazing and such a huge time saver. It was ready to use straight out of the box—no setup needed. It just runs quietly, does its job, and leaves the pool sparkling clean. I don’t usually run it overnight, but you absolutely could. The only time I take it out is when we’re swimming or to clean it.When the pool is full of bugs and leaves—I just drop it in and forget it. By the time we’re ready to swim, everything is clean and clear.I decided to buy one after my neighbor recommended it—her brother had one too and loved it. I used to avoid the pool because of all the bugs, leaves, and other floating stuff, but now it stays so clean that I actually enjoy using it again.It’s incredibly easy to use, low maintenance, and totally worth it. If you’re thinking about getting one—just go for it. You won’t regret it!

We have very large trees surrounding our pool area and only one built-in skimmer which is easily overwhelmed by falling debris and insects especially in windy weather. To the point of my wife and grandchildren not wanting to swim at times. The Betta SE has changed our whole view of cleaning and using our pool.This skimmer works around the clock collecting most floating debris before it has time to sink to the bottom reducing the need to vacuum. Now our once overflowing skimmer rarely needs emptying. Lastly the Betta could not be easier to use. Just flip the switch on the rear and put it in the water. It changes direction to avoid getting stuck, automatically avoids swimmers and is not dangerous to even small children. Completely solar charged and totally waterproof and has remote control. We clean ours out every two days or so with a garden hose. We could not be more pleased. Worth every penny.

We originally purchased this unit (which we affectionately call "Lil Smurf") in the summer of 2023, honestly skeptical if it could live up to its advertised performance. Well, we are here to say, that after more than 18 months of use, Lil Smurf is still going strong!This thing works SO well it's almost unbelievable, as it un-assumably (yes, that's a word as of now) just wakes up each morning and goes about its quiet business. It gently propels around our very unusually shaped pool, with many curves and a table at one end in the water. Sometimes it gets stuck, or a bit confused, and wedges itself between the round table and the edge of the pool, but it always seems to get itself free again, with rare intervention.We live in central Florida, and have a screened pool deck, but even so, the tiniest of gnats (they call them "no see-ums" here) seem to get through the very fine mesh screens, and find their way to floating all over the surface of the pool, even with the filter running all day. The skimmer and surface movement just aren't enough to clear these things, and they were always like a film floating on top of the water, which no one enjoyed. And often, they were swimming along, just waiting to crawl up on swimmers!So we put our Betta unit in the pool one day, it charged up from nothing but the sun, as advertised, and it went to work. Literally, within days, we had nearly ZERO ANYTHING floating on top of the water's surface! We do have a small waterfall that recirculates back into the pool, so for awhile the bugs were replenishing themselves and showing up on the water again, but Lil Smurf just kept on keeping on, and keeps our pool crystal clear most days (with the exception of windy days blowing dust and tiny debris through the screen... but Lil Smurf gets it within a day or so).So easy to clean out, just pick it up, turn off the motor (gentle impeller at the front, which sweeps everything into the mesh basket), lift the basket out and rinse it out - that's it! It works SO well, my in-laws ordered one, and now our pool guy told me that after learning about it from ours, he's told many of his clients about it, and now, nearly a dozen of his pool clients have their own Betta units. And no, these unit do not put his pool service out of business, quite the opposite, they supplement the hard work he and his team do, and help customers to enjoy their pools by keeping them crystal clear on the water's surface.Now, all that being said, there are a few notes about how Lil Smurf has weathered (pun intended!) the past year-and-a-half. When new, the Betta unit has lights on the front that blink quickly green when charged and running, and red when "sleeping," either at night or on days when there may not be enough to charge the solar panel, and then it blinks red. After a few months, one of our green lights went out (not changeable), then the other one, and now, all lights are no longer working. But honestly, we don't need lights to know when Lil Smurf is on and doing his best work, because we can simply see him floating around, still working hard and effectively.We did have to take our unit out of the pool during the winter months. Even though we have bright sunny days a lot of the year, it didn't seem like there was enough solar energy to really get him up and running most days, so we stored him out of the pool for a few months. But upon putting him back in recently, he got up and running again with no issues.The beautiful blue color has faded quite a bit in the harsh FL sun, and he's looking a bit bedraggled and worn, but he's still going strong as far as his primary duties.Pro Tip: If you have floating thermometers, pool toys, anything that your Betta unit might run into (see pics), I'd recommend removing any of those nylon ropes that are attached to things to tie them to the side of the pool, or anything that could be sucked into the impeller, which will cause your Betta unit to immediately stop working. We have found that, once the strings were removed, he can run up against the floating thermometers, and mostly just pushes them around (he's a bit of a pool bully ;) , but they eventually get pushed out of the way, not interfering with its operation.Deducted 1 star for non-functioning lights, and severe fading, but operationally, still going strong!